Hub Designs at the Gartner MDM Summit

Hub Designs was a Silver sponsor at the 2010 Gartner MDM Summit in Las Vegas in April. We were happy to see the great turnout at this event, and to see such a vibrant, busy crowd at the educational sessions and in the exhibit hall.

This article is a brief overview of our activities at the Gartner Summit, including a 3 minute video we produced to describe what Hub Designs does as a consulting firm focused specifically on master data management and data governance.

Hub Designs and Equifax Introduce Oracle Integration Solution

At the Gartner MDM Summit, Hub Designs and Equifax jointly announced a new product, Hub Designs Equifax Integration for Oracle, bringing the power of Equifax Commercial Information Solutions to the Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Customer Data Hub platforms.

The solution smoothly integrates Equifax data into Release 12 of Oracle's enterprise resource planning (ERP) and master data management (MDM) suites.

Kalido MDM and AB InBev

One of the best sessions at the Gartner MDM Summit in April was the Anheuser-Busch InBev / Kalido session. AB InBev is the largest brewer in the world, with over 116,000 employees worldwide and $39 billion in annual revenue.

AB InBev sees master data as a foundation element supporting supply chain management (SCM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM).

The "real world" benefits from Kalido at AB InBev include procurement savings, strategic inventory optimization, overhead and budget tracking, people and resource movement tracking.

Oracle's MDM Strategy and Roadmap

Hub Designs recently had a speaking engagement at the Oracle Applications Users Group COLLABORATE 10 conference in Las Vegas, immediately after the Gartner MDM Summit concluded.

One of the other sessions was by Pascal Laik of Oracle, who reviewed Oracle's MDM strategy and roadmap. He gave a good view into where Oracle MDM is headed over the next few years.